In January 2022, Associate Professor Zhang Jing of the Civil and Commercial Law Department of the School published a full-length article entitled Functional Reform of the Chinese Law of Secured Transactions in Movables from a Comparative Perspective in Volume 86, Issue 1 of the internationally renowned comparative law journal Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (RabelsZ). Focusing on the functional reform of the legal system of guarantee of movables and rights in China, this paper systematically introduces the past and present situation of the law of guarantee of movables and rights in China from three aspects: the system structure, the Order of publicity and the way of realization, by comparing with Title IX of the Uniform Commercial Code, PPSA of Canada and Australia, and UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions of the United Nations Trade Commission, and finally, the development of chattel and right security law is prospected.
Founded in 1927 by Ernst Rabel, the founder of German comparative law, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (RabelsZ) is a leading European quarterly journal of comparative law. It took the name of Rabel since 1961. The journal is currently organized by the Planck Institute of Private Foreign and international law (Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht) and published by the German publisher Mohr Siebeck. It serves international academic exchange and foreign law research by publishing academic articles on comparative law, foreign and private international law, international economic and commercial law, international civil procedure law, legal integration, European law. The current editors are Holger Fleischer, Ralf Michaels and Reinhard Zimmermann, and the executive editor is Christian Eckl.
Associate Professor Jing Zhang graduated from Leiden University in the Netherlands with a J.D. degree, focusing on the intersection of property law, insolvency law and enforcement law. He has been directly appointed as an associate professor on annual salary basis owing to his outstanding research ability. We warmly welcome young scholars from home and abroad to join us, and will provide excellent research conditions and working conditions.
